Research and Course Guides: Digital Humanities Resources: Getting Started

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An ongoing compilation of Digital Humanities tools and scholarly context. Some of the content on this guide is adapted and expanded from a June 2015 UST Center for Faculty Development workshop, "Fostering the Digital Humanities at St. Thomas," presenters Dr. Chris Wells, Macalester College, and Dr. Annie Swofford, SUNY-New Paltz. Thanks also to Dr. Emily James (English) for additional resources.

Selected Digital Humanities books

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 by Matthew K. Gold (Editor); Lauren F. Klein (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether.
Framing Big Data by Maria Cristina Paganoni
Publication Date: 2019-07-19
The author analyses the linguistic texture of the big data narrative in the news media, in healthcare and in EU law on data protection, in order to contribute to its understanding from the critical perspective of language studies. The result is a study which will be of interest to students and scholars working in the digital humanities, corpus linguistics, and discourse studies.
Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology by James E. Dobson
Publication Date: 2019-03-16
Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars increasingly adopt sophisticated data science for their work. James E. Dobson explores the opportunities and complications faced by humanists in this new era.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries by Jentery Sayers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018-01-15
In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to "make"things in the humanities.
A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman; Ray Siemens; John Unsworth
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities.
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics by Brett D. Hirsch (Editor)
ISBN: 9781909254251
Publication Date: 2014
Defining Digital Humanities by Melissa Terras; Julianne Nyhan; Edward Vanhoutte
Publication Date: 2013-12-23
Hacking the Academy: new approaches to scholarship and teaching from digital humanities by Joseph Thomas Scheinfeldt; Daniel J. Cohen
Publication Date: 2013-05-13
Debates in the Digital Humanities by Matthew K. Gold (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012-01-09
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies by Ray Siemens (Editor); Susan Schreibman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008-01-14
Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice by Douglas Eyman
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
What is “digital rhetoric”? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work and the world of digital rhetoric.

DH Readings

7 Things You Should Know About Digital Humanities
"7 Things You Should Know About Digital Humanities," Educause Learning Initiative, Novermber 2017 (PDF).
Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates
A nice overview.
Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution
by Ted Underwood, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2019.
The Digital Humanities are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?
by Nancy Maron, Educause Review, August 2015.
Artificial Intelligence For Good: Preserving Our Cultural Heritage
Stephen Ibaraki, "Artificial Intelligence For Good: Preserving Our Cultural Heritage," Forbes, March 2019.
The Digital-Humanities Bust
by Timothy Brennan, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2017.
Digital Humanities as 'Corporatist Restructuring'
by Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Education, May 2016. A summary of recent critiques of DH.
The Digital Humanities Debacle
by Nan Z. Da, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2019.
The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies
Da, Nan Z. "The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies," Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (Spring 2019): 601-639.
Dr. Annie Swafford's Twitter Feed
Digital Arts and Humanities Specialist at Tufts.
Dr. Chris Wells Twitter Feed
History professor and Director of Digital Liberal Arts, Macalester College.
Digital Humanities Now Twitter feed
Showcasing the best digital humanities scholarship and news of interest to the DH community, through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review.
Hybrid Pedagogy's Twitter feed
The journal's feed.
JSTOR Labs blog
JSTOR outside the box.
National Endowment for the Humanities Twitter Feed
Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ProfHacker Blog
Teaching and technology blog from the Chronicle.

Digital Humanities Journals at UST

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Frontiers in Digital Humanities
"publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research from Digital History to Big Data, providing a community platform for the Humanities in the digital age."
Journal of Digital Humanities
Hybrid Pedagogy
"A digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology."
Digital Medievalist
"An international web-based community of practice for medievalists working with digital media."
Kairos
"A journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy."

Directories

DH Toychest: Digital Humanities Resources for Project Building
Guides, tutorials, tool lists, project examples.
Office of Digital Humanities | National Endowment for the Humanities
View projects, publications, and grant opportunities.
TAPoR Portal
Discover tools for textual study. University of Alberta.
UST Libraries' Digital Collections
Items digitized from UST's Special Collections & Archives.

Libraries Support for Digital Humanities

Contact your liaison librarian to discuss possibilities for DH projects or assignments, for help locating sources, images, texts, etc., or contact the librarians listed below.

Academic Services Librarian | Research, Education & Engagement

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